Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
Continued from page 2
youngsters, etc. Now they are protectors of the
gun industry.
Sue and Paul Edgerton
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To the Editor:
As I stood fourth in line last Friday at
Ray’s bottle/can return with our family’s
collection of bottles and cans, we all waited
patiently for the staff at Rays to get the two
intake machines back on line.
The team at Ray’s does a fine job to
keep these machines functioning given the
increased amount of use they now receive as
our returns value doubled to 10 cents each.
I had also just come from our wonderful
recycle center, as I suspect many commu-
nity members tie these two routine errands
together.
Is it time to divert some dollars from our
gas tax income and fund a bottle/can return
area located at our recycle center? What a con-
venient one-stop-drop that would be! Maybe
to minimize maintenance/staffing costs a
service contract could be shared between the
City and Ray’s to keep both locations running
well?
Just my 10 cents worth and a holiday wish!
Steve Janego
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To the Editor:
President Trump is getting his pardon pen
ready, as the Muller investigation starts indict-
ing his associates. This Wednesday, he plans
to practice on two very innocent Minnesota
turkeys.
The other 244 million turkeys killed in
the U.S. this year have not been so lucky.
They were raised in crowded sheds filled
with toxic fumes. Their beaks and toes were
clipped to prevent stress-induced aggression.
At 16 weeks of age, slaughterhouse workers
cut their throats and dumped them in boiling
water to remove their feathers.
Consumers pay a heavy price, too. Turkey
flesh is laced with cholesterol and saturated
fats that elevate risk of chronic killer diseases.
Intense prolonged cooking is required to
destroy deadly pathogens lurking inside.
Now, for the good news: Per capita con-
sumption of turkeys is down by a whopping
34 percent from a 1996 high of 303 million, as
one third of our population is actively reduc-
ing meat consumption; Our supermarkets
carry a rich variety of convenient, delicious,
healthful plant-based meat substitutes, includ-
ing several oven-ready roasts.
This Thanksgiving holiday, as we give
thanks for life and good fortune, let’s also skip
the gratuitous violence and grant our own par-
don to an innocent animal.
Siegfried Neufhaus
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To the Editor:
I cannot attend the December 6 bond over-
sight meeting nor the December 13 school
board meeting, so I am writing you about
my concerns about the proposed bus barn at
Sisters High School.
The spending of $2 million for this proj-
ect is not acceptable. It is a huge amount of
taxpayer money, and it was not on the list of
projects that taxpayers voted for in the bond
measure.
I am also concerned about safety and aes-
thetics of such a bus barn being built in this
location. I ride my bike to SPRD, along with
walking in the area to get to hiking/biking
paths. It will be an unsightly/terrible eyesore
not only to me, as I go through this area, but
also to travelers along Highway 242. We do
not need more trees cut down in that vicin-
ity, and we do not need pollution of the air
where people go to SPRD, the skate park,
and the new bike park to exercise/recreate!
AND...what will become of the disc golf
park?
Please take my letter as a plea to reconsider
this decision.
Vicki Bugbee-Reed
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To the Editor:
I am pleased that Congressman Walden
was able to receive a contribution from the
National Rifle Association, an organization
that has millions of members and support-
ers. Even though it was very much smaller
than the very generous contribution made to
Governor Kate Brown by the gun-ban guru,
Michael Bloomberg, who has billions of dol-
lars and a well-armed security team.
But more to the point, the actions of a
handful of murderous creatures have given
the government party and their supporters an
opportunity to continue their ongoing fifty-
year drive to disarm the serfs.
Larry Benson
Sisters
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To the Editor:
Following the gun massacre in Las Vegas
last month, I watched an interview on TV
about strategies we can each do to increase
our chance of survival in a mass shooting.
They included identify exits, look for places
that provide cover and don’t panic.
Jonah Goldberg’s main argument in what
he calls the Great Gun Debate (The Nugget,
November 15, page 2) is that basically there
is nothing we can do about it and any attempt
trying to find meaningful solutions is only
going to further incite a culture war.
It is true that a majority of Americans
don’t want a ban on private gun-ownership.
They want the right to own a gun to protect
themselves and their families. But my argu-
ment isn’t about the handguns used in 33,000
gun deaths each year in the U.S., but about the
guns used in the almost daily mass shootings
in the U.S., almost always by the use of some
type of semi-automatic gun.
However you define a semi-automatic, a
supermajority of Americans (72 percent) want
a ban on assault-style weapons and 72 percent
are also in favor of banning high-capacity
ammunition magazines.
It’s not unreasonable to ban assault weap-
ons and ammunition magazines defined as
high capacity. It’s been done before in the
Federal Assault Weapon Ban, defining the pro-
hibition of certain semi-automatic firearms.
And if machine guns can be banned, why not
other weapons that can only be described as
weapons of war?
In my America, we are not helpless victims.
We don’t need to accept an America where all
we can do is run and hide. We shouldn’t have
to teach our 6-year-olds the drill for what hap-
pens when an “unsafe person” comes to the
school. We can do something. It might not be
much. It might mean, as in the Sandy Hook
shooting when either his gun jammed or he
had to stop and reload, that more children
would be able to run and escape. We are the
majority. It’s our America, too.
Terry Weygandt
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